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From: David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no>
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Subject: Re: On Stack-Based Languages (was Re: on Perl)
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2024 10:37:47 +0200
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On 18/04/2024 09:55, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Apr 2024 08:05:23 -0700, John Ames wrote:
> 
>> *Syntactically* it's very simple, but explicit stack-orientation with
>> reverse-Polish notation is a *very* different programming paradigm than
>> practically everything else out there ...
> 
> The only really tricky part of stack-based programming is keeping track of
> what’s on the stack.
> 
> I did some messing about with a reboot of PostScript which tried to add
> some niceties, like stack guards and lexical binding. Here’s an example of
> the sort of thing I was able to get working (“ddef” and “dstore” define
> and assign to dynamically-bound variables, while “ldef” and “lstore”
> correspondingly work on lexically-bound ones):
> 

I think I have only ever heard of one person who actually uses 
PostScript for programming by hand, rather than as a print output 
format.  That is Don Lancaster, an electronics engineer who is a big fan 
of "magic sines" (binary strings with low harmonics) and does all his 
coding in PostScript.  Anyone wanting to see a significant library of 
PostScript code might be interested.

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